Kenny Chesney has never forgotten where he came from. The country superstar grew up in Luttrell, just outside Knoxville, graduated from Gibbs High School and has carried his East Tennessee pride onto ...

At 1-4, the Tennessee Titans understandably don’t have a ton of great players. That’s just kind of what happens when you win three games the previous season. So, they really need all hands on deck at ...

Hanging on a wall inside Susan Lang's Hendersonville home is a picture of her son, Jeffrey Lang, and his childhood friend, a girl named Taylor Swift. Before she lived the life of a showgirl and wowed ...

The most improbably successful tunesmith in the U.S. last week was a genial, buckskin-fringed character out of Timbo, Ark. (pop. 100) named Jimmie Driftwood. Six Driftwood royalty-winners—Soldier’s ...

Not every song that is a massive hit on the charts will stand the test of time. There are plenty of country songs that topped the charts in the 1970s that very few genre fans know today. On the other ...

As the home of country music's capital of Nashville, the state of Tennessee has always had a special place in the hearts of country's biggest stars. That, coupled with the fact that the state itself ...

It appears as though many NFL teams are higher on defensive tackle Omarr Norman-Lott than Josh Heupel and the Tennessee coaching staff were. Per NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport, Norman-Lott has been ...

When composer John Corigliano accepted the Best Original Score Academy Award for “The Red Violin” in 2000, he thanked all the usual suspects, from the director and producer to the record label that ...

Could Tennessee have a new state song? Two lawmakers are looking to make just that happen. Tennessee State Rep. Antonio Parkinson and Tennessee State Sen. Raumesh Akbari, both representing Shelby ...

Ohio State football fans in several bars across Columbus were jolted by an unwelcome sound one evening in December. “Rocky Top,” the unofficial fight song of the University of Tennessee, started ...